June 3, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Sydney Smith (1771 – 1845):

“Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies, and to their exquisite nonsense…till death stares them in the face.”

Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975):

“The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”

and

“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”

Allen Ginsberg (1926 – 1997):

“The weight of the world is love.

Under the burden of solitude,

under the burden of dissatisfaction

the weight, the weight we carry is love.”

and

“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”

and

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930 – 1999):

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”

Larry McMurtry (1936 - ):

“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”

and

“The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”

Curtis Mayfield (1942 – 1999):

“Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'”